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is rectangularly bent at the B"^ radial. Variable in size and colour. — ab. solidaginis Fuchs is clear dark solidarjinis. 

 slate-grey without a tinge of brown. Said to have been bred from Solidago. — atraria H.-Sch. {= ? primulata atraria. 

 Mill, ferreata Fuchs) is a dark (greyish or blackish) mountain form, generally of larger size, rather strongly 

 marked. Larva on Phyteuma. — jasioneata Crewe is very similar to atraria but in general smaller and even jasioneala. 

 darker and stronger-marked, possibly with slightly narrower wings. Larva on Jasione in the west of England 

 and in Ireland. Possibly a separate species. — livida Dietze is again similar to atraria, but of a more leaden livida. 

 colour and more weakly marked. Juldus Mountains. Similar but smaller examples in other localities in 

 Central Asia. — difficiiis Dietze. Small, dark earth-grey, all the markings except the light subterminal almost difficilis. 

 entirely obsolete; discal spot small. The antennal cilia of the cf are longer at the base of the shaft; therefore 

 probably a separate species. Northern Alai, etc., at 3400 m elevation, in August. — Larva rather compact, 

 skin with slight granulation; setae strong; grey-brown with wedge-shaped dark dorsal markings. On Campa- 

 nula, especially C. trachelium, concealed in the seed-capsules or seed-heads, on which they feed. Moth in 

 June or July. Distributed in Europe and Western Asia, reaching as far as N. Tibet. 



E. castigata Hbn. {= subfuscata Haw., compressata Guen.) (12 g). Pale grey with a slight tinge of castigafa. 

 yellowish, pretty regularly traversed by dark grey waved lines. Superficially somewhat similar to jasioneata 

 but less long-winged, postmedian line of hindwing less near the discal dot, etc. Also to lariciata, but rather 

 less sharply marked, lines rather less angulated, discal dot in general less large, thorax without posterior dorsal 

 white spot, antennal ciliation in the d' shorter. — ab. obscurissima ab. nov. is a perfectly uniformly black ohscurissi- 

 melanotic form, like tripunctaria ab. angelicata, only the discal mark more intensely black. I have bred it from ^°" 

 Lancashire, from nettle, and it is known from other British localities. — Larva polyphagous on trees, flowers, 

 etc. The moth is very common in May — June, sometimes even in July. Widely distributed in the Palearctio 

 Region and probably in North America. — ussuriensis Dietze is much smaller and is treated by Dietze as a ussuriensis. 

 local race of castigata but as Petersen has found a slight difference in the genitalia (bursa-case in large part 

 quite free from spines, etc.), it may probably be a separate species. Ussuri and Amurland, perhaps also Japan. 



E. biornata Chr. Wings elongate, forewing light grey with the base and a longitudinal stripe in the biomata. 

 middle of the wing pale yellowish (just the colouring of Cucullia biornata), anteriorly straight edged ; transverse 

 lines indicated; a fine black discal dot; apical region with scattered black scales. Hindwing white-grey, the 

 inner margin with the beginnings of numerous dark lines. Distal margin of both wings blackish. Sarepta. 

 Also (perhaps a local race) in the Hi district. The larva is suspected of feeding on Artemisia. 



E. kuldschaensis Stgr. (= biornata Alph., nee Chr). Very near the preceding, wings less elongate, kuldscha- 

 palpus shorter. The ground-colour of the forewing is very light grey, the yellowish tinge only weak, the ««s/s. 

 median vein and its branches and also the submedian marked with blackish dots. Kuldja. 



E. aequata Stgr. (= ? diffisata Dietze). Very like kuldschaensis, rather darker and purer grey, with aequata. 

 scarcely any tinge of yellow and without the sharply defined grey costal area of the two preceding species. 

 Ferghana. 



E. ochrovittata Chr. (13 h). Forewing elongate and rather acute, coloration somewhat as in biornata. ochrovittata. 

 Christoph compares it with denticulata. Costal and posterior areas cinereous, the latter broadly, a stripe 

 between, finally directed towards the apex, ochreous. Numerous oblique, nearly parallel whitish lines cross 

 the wing. Hindwing whitish yellow, tinged with grey, broadly grey distally, weakly marked except towards 

 the inner margin. Transcaucasia. 



E. bohafschi Stgr. Smaller, broader and rounder-winged than succenturiata and icterata and distin- bohatscM. 

 giiished at once by the arrangement of the colours, the white occupying nearly one-half the forewing proximally 

 (oblique, most extended anteriorly), a dark brown colour distally. S. E. Siberia. 



E. barteli Dietze is said to resemble a diminutive icterata with the cinnamon-brown colour confined harteli. 

 to a triangular patch at the forking of the median vein. Antennal ciliation in cf not quite as long as diameter 

 of shaft. Uralsk. 



E. lucigera Btlr. (13h) is a very distinct species. Rather narrower winged than sticcenturiata, with a lucigera. 

 still larger, raised discal spot or tuft of scales, distal area darker, almost obliterating the subterminal line, 

 posterior half of forewing and whole hindwing strongly darkened. Dharmsala. 



E. Sophia Btlr. (IBo). Ground-colour white, showing chiefly near the base and in the cell of forewing so-phia. 

 and on the hindwing. Costal margin of forewing mostly brownish, distal area and posterior part of median 

 area more rust-coloured, but of a peculiar pale shade. Japan. — sinicaria Leech is larger, perhaps rather sinicaria. 

 longer winged, the veins much more strongly dark-dotted, hindwing more strongly marked. W. China: Che-tou. 



